To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.